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UPDATE: She has been lying around all day but I checked her vent and it was gunky- poop and possibly egg stuck all around and in. I submerged her tushy in a basin of warm water and very gently alternated between that and rubbing olive oil in to gently loosen anything that was stuck. I was able...

I have an EE, a BR and a PR. All had been fantastic layers until the moult which started in late September. The PR continued to lay and didn't moult, but the other two took a sabbatical. So... one egg a day from "Eve" and the others were getting their strength back. Now Eve has stopped laying. I...

Hello all~ My daughter who is in college just called me- she and some friends are in Ft. Worth, TX and found a rooster with an injured foot. She obviously cannot take it to campus housing back in Arlington. She is trying to figure out who to call. Local wildlife rescue directs her to website...

My 10 month Ameracauna has not laid in three or four days. (This has never happened.) Today I am feeling concerned because she seems on edge and not quite right. Her tail was going up and down in that "breathing" way it does when they poo and lay, but nothing comes out. I have not done the warm...

I just discovered that my compost bin is crawling with what appears to be black soldier fly larvae. When I say crawling, I mean the whole thing moves when you open it. I scooped up a cup of the worms and fed them to the girls and they loved them so much that they wanted seconds, and since I am...

I have three hens. Recently there have been pecking order issues where my BR is picked on by her EE and PR flockmates. She has been pushed to the bottom of the hierarchy. For the past four days, she does not lay in the nest box. Instead she waits until I let them out and she makes a beeline to...

My three 6-month old hens who have gotten along famously until two days ago, have started to act quite differently. It started with Maybel (Ameracauna) picking on Wanda (Barred Rock). Soon after, Eve (Production Red) also began the bullying. Now Wanda is the victim of a lot of chasing, pecking...

Can someone help me problem solve? I have three beautiful hens, just over 6 months. They were raised together from chickhood and have always gotten along quite well. They graze together, dust bathe together, etc. This morning Maybel (Ameracauna) was AGITATED. She was loud and the first thing I...

I'm hoping someone can help me. First, my coop is surrounded by a chain link run, including a chain link ceiling. It has a hardware cloth apron. I recently noticed that squirrels were entering through the chain link ceiling, jumping down and then running up the ramp of the coop to eat feed...

Hi All! I was inspired to put sand in my run by someone who posted of its ease and pleasantness. I have developed an odd obsession with sitting in the run and sifting chicken poop. It's like this fantastic excuse to play in the sand and watch the girls on the other side of the fence (who are...

Hi All~ I lost my three sweet hens about a month and a half ago to a coyote that tore through the wire on the coop. We are in the city and there have never been reports of coyotes in this neighborhood but now things have changed. Our house backs up to a wooded area (yes, in the city) and because...

After losing two of my three beautiful hens to a dog attack, I made the difficult decision to get two chicks with the intention of eventually integrating them with the lone hen. After a month of exposing the hen to the babies and squawking loudly at her every time she got that...

Our production red Gizmos is going on just over a week of being a lone girl after a dog attack took her two flock mates. They were all hand raised and super friendly (white leghorn and barred rock), but now Gizmos has taken to a new habit. Rather than return to the coop to sleep, she comes to...

Hi All~ Can you please help me with a question? We had 3 beloved chickens. Two were killed yesterday by the neighbor's dog who jumped out of her car window. They were not in their coop at the time. Our grief (my kids' and mine) is great. They were really special to us. The third- I just couldn't...